Van Loveren – a history of trees, four cousins and good wine. It says something special about a person who plants trees, which their children and grandchildren will enjoy.  And so it is with Jean Retief, late matriarch of the Retiefs of van Loveren Estate in the Robertson Valley. Van Loveren has been in the Retief family since 1937 when Hennie Retief’s father bought him a part of a farm known as Goudmyn (Gold Mine), reputedly after the large sum of money paid for it!  The part farmed by Hennie was known as Goudmyn F.  In 1939 Hennie married Jean van Zyl.  Christina